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now, that's what i call law and order. right, greg? >> jesse: i could watch that every day. >> greg: more glass doors to fight crime. defund glass doors. >> judge jeanine: don't forget at the vote it tonight -- it tomorrow. >> jessica: and tonight. >> judge jeanine: whenever you can. that's it for us. "special report" is up next. hey, bret, did you vote yet? >> bret: i have not voted, judge. how about you? >> judge jeanine: i didn't hear did you ask me if i did? tomorrow. tuesday. >> bret: we will see you. good evening. i'm bret baier, we are coming to you live tonight from fox news world headquarters in new york. this is the final day of campaigning in what has been a long and intense midterm election season. the economy has emerged as the top issue with skyrocketing inflation, soaring interest rates. democrats have largely sought to object secure that issue with abortion politics talking about at the beginning and concerns about a threat to democracy as
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they close. president biden and vice president harris are with several candidates tonight in maryland for a rally to begin in about an hour. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is in maryland tonight with the latest. good evening, jacqui. [cheers] >> good evening, bret. president biden is making his final midterm push in safe democratic territory after rallying his base in a pair of virtual dnc receptions. conveying optimism about democrats' chances but warning as he has before that fundamental rights and freedoms are in jeopardy if maga republicans win. >> the final midterm message from the white house returns to top voter issues. >> independent economists are warning that republicans in congress want to worsen inflation. >> but only after the president, his democratic predecessor and democratic surrogate spent the weekend barn storming the country with fire and brimstone warning about what is at stake. president obama in arizona.
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>> if you have election deniers serving then democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona. >> and in pennsylvania. >> this is not an abstraction. governments start telling you what books you can read and which ones you can't. dissidence start getting locked up. reporters start getting locked up. >> house majority whip jim clyburn. >> losing this democracy could very well be the end of the world. >> with something of a walkback when pressed. >> nobody has said the world has ended. >> you did say there though it could be the end of the world. >> no. democracy will be ending. the world will continue to exist. world was here before hitler, the world was here after hitler. that's what we are saying. >> democrats admitting flaws in the strategy. >> when voters tell you over and over and over again that they care mostly about the economy, listen to them. stop talking about democracy being at stake. >> the day before the election, left leaning think tank third way soundings the alarm on the
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party's flaws calling democrats out of touch on priorities out of touch ideologically and values. despite a roster of g.o.p. candidates extreme by any standard voters see democrats as just as extreme as well as far less concerned about the issues that most worry them. >> traditionally presidents hold a press conference the day after the midterms win or throoz talk about the signal from voters and plans to engage with the new congress. now, after considerable pressure from the press. pine still has not committed to taking questions despite his own warning that democracy is on the ballot and his past statements of a free press is indispensable to the functioning of democracy. bret? >> bret: jacqui, thank you. ♪ >> bret: as mentioned earlier president biden is participating in a rally in the state of maryland and at that rally will be the democratic gubernatorial
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candidate wes moore. is he expected to be there the author and army veteran will face republican dan cox a member of maryland's house incumbents. larry hogan is term limited and can't seek re-election there our fox have this as a solid democratic pickup. take a look around the governor's races around the country. if we head out here to oregon, republicans are optimistic they can flip some of these out west. former representative kristin drazan could become the first republican governor of oregon in 40 years. she faces former state representative tina kotek and the democrat turned independent betsy johnson expected to take some votes away from kotek in this race that along with strong fundraising on the republican side really gives driveway zan a good shot here out in oregon. let's take you now to nevada and this governor's race clark county sheriff, republican gubernatorial candidate joe lombardo challenging incumbent
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governor steve sisolak. lombardo has held a lead in recent polls leading to election day. sisolak lost a major endorsement from a top teacher's union. if we stay in nevada and turn over to the senate races, there is a close one out here, and that is republican laxalt taking on the incumbent cortez masto for the democrats. each one of these races is going to be a major battle because they are all very, very close and you can see how the breakdown happens. these are four toss-up states nevada being one of them. arizona, georgia, pennsylvania. the others are as we put them red or blue based on republican or democrat. if, let's say, laxalt picks up nevada, and the recent polls are right, there you get to 50. >> ; however, if democrats have great night across the board, they pick up arizona, and georgia, and pennsylvania, you are right where we are right
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now. 50/50, the split. then you have the possibility of a long shot in new hampshire with don bolduc. then the control of the senate is changed. you have the possibility of in washington state smiley a candidate out there changes the control of the u.s. senate. let's just say for the sake of argument that there is this giant red wave and they do pick up arizona, they do pick up, georgia, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and where else, colorado. look at that. that's the most. 56-44. the giant red wave takes action and this is where the toss-ups are. one of the most contested races in the country is in pennsylvania. republican mehmet oz has used the economy as a hammer against llieutenant governor john fetterman. over the weekend joe biden may have inadverb tently hurt
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fetterman jobs in that local industry, important. senior national correspondent rich edson is in pittsburgh tonight. >> are you all in. >> [cheers] >> 51st vote in d.c.? >> yeah. >> over the weekend bigger crowds and bigger names. >> vote for john fetterman. >> hello philadelphia. >> one day after sharing the stage with the democratic senate nominee, president biden reinforced his push to move away from fossil fuels. >> no more drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven't formed any new drilling. >> and before that, on friday,. >> i think we are going to be shutting these plants down all across america. >> on the republican side former president trump traveled to western pennsylvania and attacked democrats on energy. >> biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on pennsylvania energy, crushing pennsylvania jobs, gutting pennsylvania communities.
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>> fetterman's campaign did not respond to a request for comment on coal. fetterman has said he supports fracking and a transition to green energy that preservative the union way of life citing natural gas workers. for democrats, an increased focus ripping the g.o.p. on the economy. >> republicans now are looking to cut medicare and social security. [boos. [? >> >> are some democrats are criticized candidates for avoiding economic issues for much of the midterm season. the "new york times" reports democrats have spent nearly $320 million on ads focused on abortion rights compared to only $31 million on inflation ads. that's according to a media tracking firmed a impact. >> oz has largely built his campaign message on crime and the economy. as for john fetterman, a final campaign event tonight before election day. he will be rallying at a union hall, a carpenter's union hall here in pittsburgh. that is scheduled to begin in just a few hours.
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bret? >> rich edson live in pennsylvania. rich, thanks. let's bring in fox news senior political analyst brit hume and josh kraushaar hour senior political correspondent for axios. brit, you have a number of newcomers, political newcomers and there was a lot of criticism for some republicans saying maybe they weren't the best choices but all of these race was in the senate side are really close. >> brit: they are and given the conditions in the country a wave. there is a factor here that maybe hasn't been fully discussed and that is we -- this country is so divided in such a partisan way type of used to be they voted for the person or the candidate or the man not the party. today people are voting for the party in larger numbers than they ever used to. the party becomes first. which means that a candidate like john fetterman who has shown some real weaknesses as of
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a way not to be weak as a senator understand your colleagues probably stands a little better with people saying i'm sorry, is he a democrat i'm voting for him because he is a democrat and i want the democrats. we learned in 2020 how important control of the two chambers is a lot of things would have never happened if biden hadn't narrowly gotten his party in control of both houses. >> bret: you said that was one of the biggest things that happened for president biden on a negative side as far as how he governed. >> i think what happened is that biden looked like he was on his way to have, you know, republican control of the senate and republicans in the house but narrowly and he would have likely been the old moderate dealmaker that we knew as a senator. once he got control of both houses and the opportunity seemed to appear before his eyes to come out from under the shadow of barack obama for which he existed for so long he decided he wanted to be fdr and next thing you know
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$1.9 trillion big spending bill and all kinds of hard regulations happening in the wake of that and he a started governing from the left. that very thing got bill clinton in a lot of trouble after he got elected in 992 and got joe biden in trouble now. see if party loyalty will do the same. >> bret: he wanted to be fdr with a slim majority in the house and senate. >> yeah. no mandate. >> bret: one of the questions did trump-backed senate candidates make it, herschel walker, j.d. vance, oz, blake masters did, they win their ways or lose winnable senate seats. how big a factor do you think the former president is? he has a rally in ohio. there were rumors he was going to say he was getting into the presidential race today. we don't think that is happening now. how big a factor. these are not the candidates people wanted in key races. look in pennsylvania, for example, with dr. oz, he has been doing quite the two step he
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goes to the trump rally to get that base excited in western pennsylvania but you then he goes with susan collins the moderate republican senator the next day in suburb ban, philadelphia. some of the candidates are running better races especially since inwithing the primaries if i get this wave, wave sweep not ready for "primetime" candidates through the finish line. arizona blake masters has not run the strongest of races but he could still get swept n political tide. you see the same with herschel walker. georgia is a red state traditionally at least. he has not run the greatest of races that might not matter because as brit said we are tribal, we are partisan and putting on our red and blue jerseys. >> brit: i remember haley barbour republican national chairman speaking of a big wave election stead that congressman slotsenman and jetson got elected. that can >> bret: talking about 1994 and former speaker newt gingrich was on today and talking about that and what president clinton did back then, take a listen.
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>> his staff wanted him to stand firmly for the left wing and fight us every day. he said to him if he do that i will get defeated. he said i have got to cooperate with newt or i'm not going to get reelected and then he comes into the state of the union and says the era of big government is over. he signs welfare reform. the biggest capital gains cut in history. pretty hard at that point not to find some common ground. >> bret: so, to your previous point, bret, that was an adjustment made by president clinton. we will digest a lot after tomorrow. that's one of the things this direction this administration and president takes. >> brit: if the president gets in even did they only get one house, obviously the president is going to have to make some adjustments and this ambitious agenda he has had is not going to fly. he is not going to be able to pass it through the house. he will have to make some adjustments. interesting to see if he is agile enough to do it and what message he takes away from this election. so far it's not clear to me that
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he sees this coming. and that he is prepared to make a big shift. it will be interesting to see if can he do it. clinton did it pretty well. interesting to see if this man can do it. >> bret: quickly, josh, do you think we would be able to see a wave early tomorrow? >> there are few early signs we will get election night. virginia the biggest one. three house races two, in solidly biden turf in northern virginia. those will be two races to watch. new hampshire is also -- these are races in new hampshire where the more maga trump oriented candidates, won republican nominations to the point where republicans stop spending money for. so candidates up there including don bolduc in the senate race. if you see don bolduc ahead early on in new hampshire. that's a early sign of a possible wave. >> bret: big day tomorrow. gentlemen, thank you. >> thanks, bret. >> bret: stocks were up on the final day of campaigning. the dow surged 424 today. the s&p 500 finished ahead 36. the nasdaq gained # 9. lehr are some of the other headlines tonight.
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kremlin connected entrepreneur admits he had interfered in u.s. elections and will continue to do. so it's the first time he had confirmed the allegations that he had rejected for years is he among seven russian nationals charged in the u.s. operating a covert social media campaign ahead of the 2016 presidential election. ukraine's president wants closer ties to israel. vols says the two countries can signifsignificantly support eacr since they face threats. faced benjamin netanyahu after last week's election victory. called on israel to send weapons to help fight russia. customs and border patrol sources tell fox news there were at least 64,000 known got-aways at the u.s. southern border in october. they were also at least 205,000 border patrol apprehensions of migrants in between ports of entry during the month of october. that is believed to be the highest ever.
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boost. transportation secretary pete buttigieg campaigned alongside incumbent democratic senator catherine cortez masto who is one of the most vulnerable senate democrats who has been polling in a statistical tie with her republican opponent nevada's former attorney general adam laxalt. bill clinton stumped for cortez masto as well and president obama did so on tuesday president biden has not visited the state. given his low approval numbers we asked cortez masto if she had wanted the president to campaign here. >> you know what? anybody is welcome to come in, in to this state. the focus is as i said turn out our voters. make sure everybody exercises the right to vote which their voice in this community. >> laxalt has focused otherwise campaign on the economy and crime and he said today that his opponent's record is tied to the president's. >> she had the opportunity to stand with nevada, to tell joe biden she wasn't going to spend more money, but she cast that vote just like she has cast
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every other vote with joe biden when he has needed her, all these things have added up to make nevada an absolute disaster zone. >> now, so far, just under 640,000 early votes have been cast. that's up 100,000 from 2018. democrats have a 1.4 percent advantage there over republicans. but nevada has over half a million active nonpartisan voters and they will likely decide the outcome of this. now, as far as turnout tomorrow, weather could play an impact. it is very blustery right now. rain is in the forecast tomorrow for las vegas and snow in reno where weather will not be playing a factor down scioto in arizona that is where my colleague alicia acuna is following the races. >> thank you. in final pitch talking to voters about the issue inflation and the border crisis. incumbent democratic senator
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mark kelly is in the fight of his political life, often distancing himself from the biden administration and its policies. >> legislation to help border businesses. i have legislation to prevent the administration from ending title 42. and i tell the president, you know, when is he wrong and he is about to make this crisis worse. >> his opponent, republican blake masters wants to, quote: militarize the border. and accusing democrats of weak approaches to the problem. >> if you just throat border wide open, do you think that's going to cause a crisis? yes. they did it on purpose. not only did they tell illegal aliens come on in, we are not going to deport you, they incentivized people to break the law. >> in the governor's race, g.o.p. hopeful kari lake is pushing back on accusations she and her supporters are too extreme. this as democrat katie hobbs who is also arizona's current secretary of state has made election integrity central to her messaging.
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>> we have been right here solid conservatives for a long time. we haven't moved. guess who moved? the democrats. they moved further and further and further. they have fallen off the stage, okay? >> i know we say every election this is the most important election in our lifetime. this is possibly the last election in our lifetime if we don't elect the right people. >> and an indication of how heated this state is, the maricopa elections division just wrapped a news conference on, quote: predicting false election narratives, bret? >> bret: alicia acuna live in phoenix, thanks. up next we go down to georgia for the final day of campaigning in that crucial senate race. first, beyond our borders tonight. north korea's military says its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to mercilessly strike key south korean and u.s. targets such as air bases and operation command systems with a variety of missiles that likely
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included nuclear capable weapons. north korea fired dozens of missiles and flew warplanes toward the sea last week triggering evacuation alerts in some south korean and japanese areas. north korea also denied selling arms to russia. this is a live look at london, one of the big stories there tonight, french president emmanuel macron meets with british prime minister hissy sunak on the sidelines of the climate conference. the leaders were expected to discuss small boat crossings across the english channel in a surge of the number of asylum seekers attempting to reach britain by boat. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back. ♪
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>> bret: house speaker nancy pelosi is talking about the future and her potential role in the next congress. the interview is the speaker's first since her husband was attacked at the couple's san francisco home. >> have you made the decision in your mind, whatever that decision might be. >> i have to say my decision will be affected by what happened in the last week or two. >> will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way? >> yes. please would lose her speakership if republicans take control of the house. republicans are urging their voters not to listen to media predictions of a red wave and to show up at the polls tomorrow. >> bret: senate candidates supporters on the last day of campaigning get out the vote. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is in macon tonight. >> are you ready to win this election? >> it's the final sprint for the reverend and the football star. >> i'm going to tell all of you
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to vote for me and we'll all get to the promise land. >> in a race that could once again decide the fate of the u.s. senate. republicans churning out big names and taking their final shots. >> legal immigrants are poor patriotic than the leftists these days. so the only person that we need to make sure we deport is warnock. >> herschel walker is demonstrating to you what kind of senator he would be based on the company he is keeping. >> the latest fox news poll has incumbent senator raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker practically neck in neck if neither gets more than 50% of the votes, georgia law sends this race to a runoff. >> don't listen to this red wave stuff they are talking to you about. >> pressure is on the g.o.p. to get voters to the polls and prevent a repeat of 2020 when the peach state handed democrats the senate. this time inflation is the top issue which drew a record 2.5 million early voters. and could help walker on
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election day despite allegations that he forced two women to get an abortion. he denies it. >> they are going to be able to get the economy back in the right direction. >> even if he is not your favorite candidate. >> yes. >> warnock supporters say this race is more of a choice between right and wrong. >> inflation comes and goes throughout all administrations. we need to save america. >> and, bret, tonight we are expecting senator lindsey graham to join herschel walker at a rally tonight. in the meantime, take note of this very interesting senator warnock has not had a big political headliner a heavyweight on the trail with him the last couple of days except for his senator colleague jon ossoff. bret? >> bret: aishah hasnie live in macon. anchor of "fox news sunday" joins us tonight shannon bream and she is going to explain the fox voter analysis system we
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will use tomorrow. good evening, shannon. >> shannon: we are excited to use our new innovative survey approach again this election. our fox news voter computer analysis national survey more than 100,000 voters with realtime vote data so we can understand who voted and more importantly why. by interviewing voters on their cell phones, land lines, starting way back on october 31st to the end of election day the full profile of american voters including the tens of millions who are now voting early or by mail and they wouldn't be represented in traditional in person exit polls. we ask who they intend to support tuesday and how they already voted that ♪ all. why are they supporting a particular candidate? well, for instance, is inflation the most important factor in their voting decision? if so, that could help republican candidates. or, is the supreme court overturning roe v. wade and the impact on abortion the biggest factor? that probably helped democratic candidates. what message does the electorate want to send president biden is
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their vote expressing support for him or opposition or maybe it wasn't a factor at all. maybe more about the issues. also going to have specific questions in key races. for example, asking pennsylvania voters how concerned they are about john fetterman's health vs. mehmet oz's so-called carpet bagger status. our fox news voter analysis survey will tell us all of that and much more, bret? >> bret: we both know republican and democratic campaigns are already lawyering up i can say that five times. but what about the potential for legal challenges? >> shannon: last i heard from one source tracking these more than 100 cases already filed couple in key states too. in pennsylvania they are fighting about ballots came in dated incorrectly or have a problem with. they the supreme court there in pennsylvania told them set those aside and don't count them. they are still fighting though over whether voters should be able to make up the mistakes it found. in georgia, cobb county, another critical senate race in a critical place there, cobb county a judge has ruled that they are going to extend the extension for an absentee ballot
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to come in by november 14th because over 1,000 ballots did not get mailed out there to people who requested absentees so the legal, you know, strategies back and forth has already started i would expect after we get the votes done tomorrow there will be a whole new slew of legal action to follow, bret. >> bret: yes. are you ready? >> shannon: i am ready for it. >> bret: see you tomorrow. up next the panel on the final day of the midterm election campaign. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates with covering tonight. fox 45 in atlanta as georgia governor brian kemp directs all available state resources to help local responders deal with a chemical plant fire on colonel's island. authorities ordered the evacuation of about 100 homes there. the plant is located 70 miles south of savanna. one firefighter was taken to the hospital but there are no other reports of injuries. and this is a live look at minute maid park in houston from fox 26. one of the big stories there tonight, the victory parade for the world series champion
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houston astros, the team clinched second title in six years by closing out the philadelphia phillies saturday. some schools canceled classes so students could attend the celebration. congratulations. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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♪ >> it's also now cheaper to generate electricity from window and solar than it is from coal and oil. literally cheaper, not a joke. we are going to be shutting these plants down all across america and having window and solar. >> some of you were there, it was -- it was loud and hard to hear, i think or maybe not exactly what -- what -- what was being said. >> bret: the white house defending those coal comments saying the president's words were twisted. so, let's bring in harold ford jr. and ben domenech and my colleague martha mccallum, anchor and executive editor of story, co-anchor tomorrow tonight.
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martha, let me start with you. interesting to see the white house back pedaling a couple days in a row. >> this is a comment you would in the expect from the president at this stage there has been a lot of pushback on energy prices to double down on the idea that we're not going to drill anymore and to talk about window appeared and solar at this moment in the campaign i think is a reflection of the president missing the mark on where people are right now. we have seen it time and time again. i think when you look at what is about to happen tomorrow night we will watch it in realtime. to say what extent are voters dissatisfied? how does that register? does it register in what i'm calling a pink ripple or is it the red tsunami at the other side? i think that's requesting to give us a sense of how people feel about energy independence in this country. about education. when you look at the education numbers. you see almost an even split we
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will get a sense of where the country is headed and where their allegiance is right now. it's going to be interesting. >> bret: harold, when you look at the environment. set aside the polls, the issues, it dossett up well for republicans. even some prominent democrats are questioning the closing messages. here is van jones. >> i think there was this kind of tools gold this idea that the threat to democracy is so severe in the wake of insurrection and election deniers possibly grabbing control of the government that that was something that you had to talk about. but you also had to talk about the economy. i think the tragedy here is that the democrats have something to say on the economy what do you think about that. >> i think is he largely right. thank you for having me on. democrats what happens tomorrow no matter whearts whether they lose a few seats. i think conventional wisdom they
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lose both. democrats need to run reality energy security. we probably need one with crime, also, if things don't work out here in new york it is all because of crime if we lose the governor's race in new york. this happens in elections. this is what democracy is all about. this is what voters give politicians an upbring a an upcoming saying you are not talking about the things we care deeply about. i hear democrats talk about numbers and facts and stats. if people don't feel safe guess what they're not safe. if people feel like they are auto not doing well economically. he are not doing well economically. you can point to whatever stat you want. martha's projection happens tomorrow happens. also i'm a little confused. look at these issues, which favor republicans so heavily, and you would expect 5, 6, 7 point differences between democrats, republicans and senate races and even gubernatorial races but these races are -- these margins are very, very fight. tight.no one seems to be at 50. too many tomorrow i will be
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surprised whatever the outcome is. the polling seems to be miss aligned to the reality of how people say they are feeling. >> bret: yeah. we will have indications early nit night. we will have a feel of turnout and that will tell us some story early. ben, it's interesting to see the president is not the pitch man in chief. he is in maryland tonight he was in chest chester here in new york. blue. he has not been at the front lines. >> you know, i was there in south carolina as i'm sure many of us were when joe biden clinched the nomination effectively for the democratic party. things were in the concerns people had about their pocketbook or their future. right now i think we see a white house that is unfortunately not continued that. they have really gotten out of touch as if the kitchen table issues are completely out of sight. if you care about the cost of
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energy. if you care about crime, if you care about the border. if you care about all these things we seat voters care about. why are you closing with a message that effectively says to people i'm going to make your energy costs more. that's what they hear when they listen to joe biden say he is shutting down the coal plants no more drilling. >> bret: and the message of the threat to democracy i assume it's a base generating scare everybody to get out to the polls, i suppose. >> one of the problems is when we look at the polls and we will find out if these numbers are accurate. 8 out of 10 people think there won't be questions about the outcome of the election. so even that even though we hear a lot of very high emotional response to the potential threat to democracy, we're not sensing that it exists in a real significant way at the voter level. and we'll see what these challenges look like, you know, and what crops up and if there is a reason to fill undermined in this. so far the polls don't indicate
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that this is a top of mind issue for people. >> bret: if the new york governor's race goes to the republicans, is that the earth shattering race for tomorrow no matter what happens? >> well it would have to be top one or two. look at race out in oregon the governor's race out there which i think is close as well. but, for democrats to lose in new york and if they do to speculate to your question, this would be the reset that i think every democrat across the country would have to say to joe biden we are not looking at issues the right way. not helping people overcome challenges and fears. new york, again, if she loses, you had everybody come here and not able to push her over. i still think she can win this thing but the fact that we are even talking about it gives you a sense of where democrats are. >> bret: all right. panel, stand by. up next, we will get specific predictions of individual races from the panel. ♪
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guarantee he'll make more progress on the issues you care about. >> anybody who votes for a republican for congress or the senate is voting to cut social security, medicare, and raise the price of insulin. >> bret: the final pitch from all sides. we're back with the panel. ask everybody to pick a race they are looking at, interesting. martha, start with you. >> martha: so we talked about new york and the governor's race. it's fascinating that we are in a situation the day before the election where you have toss-ups about four or five house toss-up races and the new york all in contention. sean patrick maloney head of the dcc that was my governor pick but this one is new york 17 running against mike lawler malone carved out this district and moved and pushed out mondaire jones who is no longer in the house anymore and it was supposed to be favorable area for him.
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basically a biden plus 10 district and he is on the ropes which is a very difficult situation for him to be in. so, now he is sort of scrambling to get right on the inflation side and discussing how when he was growing up with eight kids in the family these kind of times meant chef boyardee for dinner. generally trying to say to people i understand what you are going through but that got seized upon by lawler. this is definitely a race we are going to be watching very closely tomorrow night and you have got several other in new york in these house races that will be really good indications of whether or not we are pink, red or redder. >> bret: ben, your race. >> i chose one that is going to be a surprise for a lot of the democrats kay porter out in california attracted a ton of attention. top five fundraiser in the house. has gone viral for her progressive action on capitol hill. but she is running in a district that has been redrawn in a way that includes more of orange county and scott bagh has run
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for this district before in a couple of different places but he now really is a toss up scenario. the kind of year where the rug can be pulled out from underneath you and you can see a prominent progressive democrat justen vanish from the congress. >> bret: harold, your race? >> two races congressional rails of new york 3 robert zimmerman running the tom swayze seat. that race zeldin is strong out there in long island it will be curious if robert can overcome that strength that he has in that race. they are both zimmerman is pro-choice. the other by is pro-life. it will be a contest of wills there. and my governor's race is a governor of michigan gretchen whitmer running for re-election realism and revival plan. she is pro-choice. she is in a tough race there big money come in against her from the beboss family and former president trump has been there if she wins this race it will be a bright spot for democrats not only the fact that she won but
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the way she won, talking about economic issues and she could catapult herself into the conversation if indeed president biden does not run in 24 even in 28 when we know he won't run. >> bret: your governor's race was georgia. >> i'm sorry. did i go? >> martha: kemp is up by about five points right now in the latest polling that we are seeing on this race. and stacey abrams is making the argument that black men in georgia have been fed disinformation in this race. so when you boil down, you know, what information is out there. you look is up about 4%. higher inflation rate in georgia than the rest of the country, it's at 9%. those are the numbers. it's been fascinating to watch governor kemp kind of thread the needle in his own way and separate himself from former president trump and still manage to be strong in this race so perhaps if he does win by the kinds of numbers we are seeing maybe he potentially pulls be
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herschel walker up above 50 because the runoff it becomes a whole nother question. but if you have got a big enough lead tomorrow night, that's something we will be watching can he pull walker. >> bret: a obviously races across the country where the governor could take the senate candidate over. last thing, come wednesday, depending on the runoff in december if that happens or not, we will likely stop talking about polls for a while. there have been so many polls. [laughter] >> bret: i mean, you start to hate polls. >> ben: they can't all be right. >> bret: no. if it is a wave, we are looking at republicans being under counted in polls anywhere from 2 to 5 points. and that has happened in previous elections if that happens, you are talking about races that tick down to your point, ben, across the country. >> ben: it's a systemic problem, it's a huge problem and one that we will continue to deal with. and i think there is going to be egg on a lot of the pollster's faces come wednesday morning. >> bret: all right of the we are almost there.
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